(May 6, 2013 at 2:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 6, 2013 at 9:41 am)pocaracas Wrote: You want there to be something more fundamental than the observed world and you call it god.You're taking half of the world for granted.
(May 6, 2013 at 9:41 am)pocaracas Wrote: The brute facts are what we can measure.Not everything can be measured. Which is more of a dog Lassie or Pluto? Does love have a mass? How do you measure the difference between one's ability and one' desire? Who is more evil, a shoplifter or a rapist? Are you so dense that you cannot recognize the difference between descriptions about quantity and those about quality?
Pluto's a planet, silly!
Everything else is just names we've given to psychological states, backed up by brain functions... highly complex brain functions which we haven't yet managed to map adequately... and may never do... but still, brain, neurons and the like...
Of course, this means you're just trying to squeeze god into the realm of mental processes.... god of the gaps, much?
